Sakine om Medelklassvänstern

Sakine skriver som vanligt rakt-på-sak. Denna gång om medelklassvänstern som tar sig för att representera de fattiga och de i utanförskapsområden, utan att ha en susning vad de talar om. (Expressen)

Påminner mig dessutom om mina tidigare inlägg kring frågan om relativ-barnfattigdom. Om det är något politikerna behöver bry sig om eller ej.

Personligen anser jag det högst relevant. Tar för givet att Sakine också anser det. Bara frustrerande att det finns de politiker i Sverige som inte tycker så.

Exakt hur man ska definiera relativ barnfattigdom gå så klart att diskutera.

 

Don’t just ask the ”remaining teachers” – ask the teachers we want to have fo our children

Good that the Swedish-school-discussion goes on (eg SvD , DN), but …

… it seems like ”only the current” teachers are asked …

… and ”how to save the students who are in school right now?

My gess is that ”Farbror Blå” was a great teacher. Order when studing, the students could be sure he wanted only the best for them, and every now and they he could iven join in playing.

My view is, might be over-pessimistic, but still: Isn’t it so that most teachers who like creative study environment for all students in the class, they have left the school. A few might have searched refuge in a private school, and a few enthusiastic new teachers exist. As well as a few of the old ones which has learned to survive the different ideologies which comes and goes.

So: Why don’t we ask more of the individuals who has left and the persons who should have chosen the career as a teacher if it was some order in the school, supporting all of the students.

I would also like to hear more about how to rescue the current students. Not only to listen to these long-term reforms. The are also needed, but doesn’t help the students in school today.

Better just mention then that I like the possibility with apprenticeship. And I can not understand the discussion that all shall have pre-University competence. Why not just make it easy and possible to add that competence later in life if you like to.

And finally: Not just make the students come out from the school environment, also make ”we who work” coming into the school. Especially in these subjects where today’s school system has failed to inspire. I think it would be a great thing to visit school. Could we not have something related to either tha I as an individual could get a tax reduction. Or if I was at school during my ”Work-time”, then that company get a tax reduction. Or maybe ”only” good credibility, and employees with broadening horizons.

 

Teach for Sweden

I learned about Teach for Sweden on the Swedish public service TV News today. They brought up the problem we have to attract teachers for mathematic, chemistry and so on.

I have not taken the time to look into what they already plan or which ideas they have, the purpose of this blogpost is instead just to provide my spontanious questions, until I have looked further into this subject. So, how do they consider the following:

• Higher degree of remote teaching (e-learning), including new ways and to ”import” from Universities outside of Sweden.
• Focus on the pedagogic skill for teachers of young students. Not necessarly with university degree in the subject in question.
• Increase the use of students in mathematic, to teach/support younger students.
• Increase the possibility to be a part-time-teacher, for students in High School and University.

I am looking forward to come back to this subject when I have looked further into Teach for Sweden. Seams like it is a concept also used in other countries.

 

Pre-requisites for continous re-prioritization, IRL continues

Hi again. Ok, I like writing articles, but writing about my life this much each day. No. But isn’t it so that is is lots and lots of persons doing that today. Wow.

So, the bills handled and saleries paied. All tha papers related even sorted in there right folder. And we talk IRL folder. Not a folder on the web.

All smiles, because because the ruitines now start to be implemented = me implementing my own invented ruitnes on myself … starts to pay off And, this week: First week the drivers handed in their papers withiut reminder. No new driver to pay out salery to, makes it faster. No new company to pay. Makes it faster. I have full control of the:

• The pile of paper from this weeks post to look through during the week-end. In beforehand checked that it could wait till the weekend, from the day I opende the envelope.
• The monthly binder for all verifications
• The binder for all: To pay bills
• The binder for all: Payed bills
• The already prepared pay-checks, just to place the order to the bank to transfer, print out the verification, stamp it together with the salery-specification and then just put it in the verification binder

I even got my glas of wine served from my partner. He is the one to take over the administration now when we have enough drivers. Belive me: That was a true challange! I just got reminded looking through the papers. Currently I am more then pleased with our three drivers So, any other day the plan to hand over can come true.

To deligate or hand-over isn’t always as easy as it sounds. In November we hiered a person to do some of the admin-work. The in the middle of me training her, we decided to take in one more car and two more drivers, resulting in way more administration. But: We needed to re-define the ruitines! A challange to re-define the ruitines and transfer them at the same time. It was also kind of out-sourced in the way that the plan was that she should do the work in her own home. My godness what a lot of logistic it turned out to be. So we gave it up. Learning time! Turned out to be even more learning time, because all this had resulted in a mess in the paper. I tried my best to fix it during Christmas. Was so happy when I haded in the binder! To just get so tiered when I about a week after got the message: This is not correct … So, tride to correct, and tride to correct, and …

Eventually coming to that turning point in prioritization: When is the time you risk higher if you continue to try to fix it the way you now have tried to fix it, compared to fix it for real. Or at least invest some time in inventing a new ruitine, this time a new template, and then just re-do. We definitly needed it, but previously it had been more time-safe to continue the old way, even if that ruitine in it self took klonger time and was way higer risk to provide errors. Now, it was obviously the time to take that investment-time.

Rational:

• Continue to try to fix in accordance with the previous ruities/template: Could not tell how long time it would take. Apparently much longer then we first thought.
• Take the time to invent a new template and then re-do it all. Would take quite a long time, but: It was easier then the other alternative to predict the time to  spend. I would be able to make it in time. And I would be given an improvement of the ruitine/template. Just as I wanted

So, alterntive two we went for. This was beginning of January. Ane even if it is just me, it is not until now in April I think I have done all these small little changes here and there, think I have it pretty stable.

So, this about handing it over to someone else. Yes, I am looking forward to it. But, I do not looking forward to the transformation. Huge risk in both time and error, and error also just eat time.

And as you might have figured out. Now when I havwe just gotten my nose over the surface, I am not too keen of jumping in to that risk just today …

Time to inform you about my latest re-prioritization. I was so please the billing-salery-administration went so smothly, but I also noticed that I start to get tiered. The weekly summary towards the drivers. I must be focused there. It is so easly errors done, and ones done they are very time consuming to correct. So, that will be an activity for tomorrow. When not tiered, it is rather quickly done. And even quite relaxing, if not stressed.

So, I chose to update the blog onec more And promisse myself that this is not a way to blog each day. But fun for one day

So, latest prio is: News are back in again. I forgott we have news at 21.00 as well. Habits sticks. We most often goes for the 19.30 news. Yes, we read on teh web as well, but like the TV also.

So, the Tv will not fully replace the radio, nor the paper. And I do not think web-shopping will re-place all the IRL shoppling which is possible to replace. One reason being: The reason for shopping isn’t just to get what you want as fast and cheep as you want. As just mentioned: I also like just strolling around. I did the same Friday evening, but then in the grocery store. Perfect thing for me to do to calm down from an intensive work-week. The luxeray of not having  any small children any longer. I am so pleased to have children in teh higher teen-age. One even moved out, so that we can focus on just this well being talking. Not the every-day easily getting irritated of eachother. Lovely! Even given me more un-expected time with my son. Convincing him to spend 30 minutes with me and Big Bang Theory every now and then Perfect!

So, 13 minutes to go until news

I chose to use that time to remark on the following:

• I am stil just soo facinated how much paper-work there is, and the huge possibilities for automatization. And the insight that this far I just know it is possible, but I have had very very limited time to look into those possibilities, such as: Tiem and cost to get there. This is something I look forward to focus on when the paper work is done by my partner. But I could not recis to write an article related to an onging debate in Sweden. I even got it published. Sorry, in Swedish, but I wrote this to push for an easier admin and more fair play when it comes to taxes in this business.

And bottom line: This way of re-prioritization was possible very much because I did most things myself, with very limited need for coordination.

Consider doing something similar in a huge organization. Quite a challange! Absolutely possible. A lot of tools are there, but are we ready to use them?

I hope to come back on that one But that will be another time.

Now I have just 4 minutes to re-fill my wine and the stay in the sofa till it is time to go to bed

A perfect and wounderful day (if I don’t consier the waterdamage to take care of next week, but that is next week)

 

Oz the Great and Powerful, and continue on my IRL

I found the carrot juice in the refrigerator, so drank too much of that before the sushi and had sushi without drinking. Red-wine and sushi did not sound like a too good combination anyway.

And my partner just told me that Hancock is on TV 21.30 this evening. Perfect! And with a little wine. Unfortunately he will most probably not be able to see the film through, as he has a long and early driving to do Sunday morning.

So, continuing my prioritization of the day. Now I allow myself to write one more article. Just a short one. It is anyway saturday evening, and I think I will even be able to  do the company-biling-salery-weeklysumary before 21.30 anyway. Might even have time for the news

Last weekend we manage to go to the movie. WWe used to go to the movie a lot before, but have not been able to thei last year because of the starting-up of the company. So it was extra appriciated from our side.

We saw Oz the Great and Powerful

I just so love it! The message, the warm feeling it gives. Mmmm

I was already a great fan of The Wizard of Oz. Have not actualy seen it that many times, but like it for the same reasons as with Oz the Great and Powerful, that is for the message and the warm feeling

A not such wild guess is that the fact that it also reminds me of my Grandpa, add to that warm feeling. I watched part of it ones visiting him at his last years in life. Such a warm, calm, interesting and positive person. Eventhough the reason for me remembering seeing it at his place was that I was half watching and simultaniously also talking with him. Apparently he did not notice me watshing, because just at the end, he changed channel. And I did not have the heart to tell him I was watshing. And there are DVDs for me! The thing was that at that time I just could not remember the ending. Very frustrating! But also an indication I have not seen it often.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a novell by Gregory Maguire. I am very found of these kind of books. Taking a character from a famous story, and then re-writing the same wtory, but from that persons perspective. So, here: The story told by the Wicked Witch of the West. Here the true good one.

And ask my partner. I drive him cracy by trying to see everything from anyones perspective. But anyother day I will learn to not share that insight with him just the minute he is fully upset about someone … True challange for me! This about acting in accordance with your intentions aren’t that easy everyday

To dig a bit futher into why I like the Oz message, and why it provides me with this warm feeling. I like the message about that you shall belive in yourself, and I get the warm feeling from the way Dorothy and her friends respects and take care of eachother. Kind of same as in Oz the Great and Powerful. (But I did not like the way Oz treated the monkey first, but it improved, so I calmed down. And I shall not give a way the ending, but I was all smile when coming out from the Theater .)

And just one more reflection. Yes, you can tell that I have hardly have had the time to write articles for a year, and now when I do have som etime I have quite a number of ideas I just like to write.

No One Can Motivates You … Until You Motivates Yourself..!!!

I think it stinks. Or is it my who has not understood it? For me it sound like a good exuse from selfish people why they shall not care for others.

I will order them: Watch one of these Oz-movies ones a day! Their choice which one

Or, is it like: Strive to motivate the warm but un-motivated, and ensure that the cold ones stay un-motivated … Hum, something for a next article … The one I have promised a friend about if there is sucha thing as free speach is also making it’s way up to my surface. Ooo and my favorit, but not written, as I do not have the answer, but: How to set up the rules in a world, before you know which role you will be given! And I have some interesting ideas around Globalization as well as Democracy. Might even handle them together. That is at least the current intention. Lets see.

Now, the ”company-work” is waiting. The wine as well. Administration and wine a Saturday evening isn’t such a bad combination as it might sound firstly. Apparently the news being out from the prioritylist of today. But Hancock is still on, and the one-slider work is continuosly bubbling behind

 

buy-ology IRL

Continuing to refer to today’s own experiences and choises, in relation to some theories.

This time in relation to this about buying criteria. I quite recently read the book buy-ology, so this is also refering to it’s theories.

Isn’t it so that our buying criteria get more and more complex, the further up the Maslow pyramid we climb. And for Swedish people like me, living in the top-right-corner country on the World Value Map.

And now the connection to this about time.

Because, isn’t it so, that it is not just me having the time and ethic criteria in the very top of the my buying/acting priority-criteria?

Poor all these people who need to or at least like to predict our shopping or acting.

And as Martin Lindström concludes in his book buy-ology, people themselfs can’t say in beforehand either. Or, they can say, but it seldom turns out to be correct. That is, in questions like: Would you buy this, would you follow this TV-serie, does this advertisement affect you to buy, etc

Personaly I am quite aware that my behaviour might seam in-consistent. And it will definitly be very hard to predict, as it is so many parameters. I try myself to figure out my shopping preferenses. Not that I have that much need for that information, but the subject interests me.

And I guess, hum pretty sure actually, that it comes from my will to act 8including shop) in accordance with my values.

And belive me, that is a tricky thing!

1. Which values are these actually? And what does they mean, translated to  my decision criteria in every day life?
2. And even if I manage to figure that out, how do I get hold of the data I like to get hold on to be able to take all these fantastic and ethicly correct decisions. Again: According to my own criteria.
3. In some areas the providers do try to help me, or different organizations can help me a bit on the way. For example I try to buy quite a lot on Body Shop, because I trust them to be good-enough-in-line with my values. Pretty much in-line actually. But if I should aim to be that convinced before any action/shopping decision I would starv to death before I found all the input data.

So, saying this I can also say that I am apparently quite in line with my time. I just read this article 8 medvetna trender, by Camilla Tollstoy in Kupe March 2013 (The Swedish railway company’s monthly free magazin, the title in english: 8 consious trends)

The point being, we are moving towards individuals more consious then before activly figure-out and decide which values they like to act according to.

But as I said: To act, not just say or think, is a challanging thing.

For the individual, as well for the ones trying to predict us. Might be easy to figure out these values of ours, even to figure out the decision criteria we would like to act upon.

But as we nearly never will be able to act accordingly, that is not such a good help.

What I see in my cristal ball. Or at least I hope for! And as it seams I am not such a strange creature after all, it is more a question of when ”someone” will take the opportunity to help me out. This goes for all of my decisions in life, privately, as an employee as well as an employer. As I happen to have quite a big opportunity to actaully act in accordance with my ethic values, I like to use that opportunity.

And I do not mind paying or giving it a bit extra time to act more accordingly.

Ooops nearly forgetting to do the IRL connection. Here it comes, continuing on my IRL article from earlier today ”My ”time-theory” tested IRL”, which ended with me taking the decision to go and buy some paper for the office, business with pleasure A great combination!

Turned out that before I even get out of the door, I found more un-expected-water-damage to put highest on my priority list, so I took care of that first and then off I went. Sunny weather, so I took the opportunity to take a longer walk to the city then necessary. Once ther I went to a favorite store of mine, Claes Olson. I find it very relaxing strolling around there. (Pleasure again! ) Finding the paper. Hum shall I buy a full box? No too heavy as I shall walk home as well. But I realy wanted paper with pre-stamped holes. They did not have that, so: Which decision to take?

1. Go to another store today? Rather not, did not feel for that.
2. Wait till tomorrow and hope I did not run out of paper in beforehand? Low risk to ran out of paper becaue as this day turned out I have not even get started with the paper-consuming-activities yet. But I want to have this buying-paper just done, tick it off my list. I can do the holes myself, it takes a bit more time.
3. Buy them, and thereby also buy myself some time. I do not need to bother about this problem for the rest of this weekend anyway, and I can buy those pre-holed paper as soon as it suites me better. I will have use of these non-holed-papers eventually as well, anyway.

I bought the paper, and pleased with myself I rememberd that I had not eaten any lunch. Considerd where to go and where to eat I landed at a cafe, where I could sit outdoor in the sun.

And all these choises! So, what to order. A rather long que, which suited me perfect at this occation as it gave me plenty of un-stressed-decision-time I first decided for choclate and strawberry-cake, then changed to chai-latte and strawberry-cake. Then it happend that the person just before my ordered chocolate and strawberry-cake, and I did not identify myself with him at all, childish? Might be so, but why not? Anyway, now: Should I not care about my spontanious reaction and calmly stay with my decision, or should I stress-change my decison? Lucky me, firstly then I saw the scones, standing a bit behind everything else, so I had not noticed them before. I love scones So, scones I ordered.

Then it was so lovely there out in the sun. Apparently I stayed a bit too long, and did not thought about closing-time, though I had all time in the world. I was namely to buy sushi on my way home, which I have already asked my partner if he wanted for this evening, and he sounded very glad when he said yes, so I wanted to keep that promisse. Went to a ”normal” grocery store, they were open but did not sell sushi. But going around in there I reminded myself of a sushi-bar actually in the same block. Normaly I am not a sushi-lover, but I felt for it today. Anyway: I am not that fully updated on where it is sold.

Going back to my ethical-values. I do not eat meat any-longer, but I still eat fish and see-food. Lets see for how long. Because that is so ethical-tricy. Standing there waithing for our sushi, looking at the pictures of the menu, I rememberd myself: Had I not decided to scip scrimps? Or wat was my decision? Was it just an intention? Was it just the giant-scrimps? I just dropped that thought, took my sushi (with scrimps in) and took a very nice walk home in the sun. Enjoying seeing all these young, around 20, coming in groups, joifully talking, a little wine or beer with them, moving out to the sofas in the park in the sun. Saturday afternoon

So, conclution: My actual buying might not be that easy to predict, but I definitly stand in line for that ”support to act ethical – in accordance with my own value-criteria”.

But now: Some sushi. Was too late to buy white wine which I would have liked now. Migh go for the red one already at home.

And then I might just allow me to write one more short little article about the Wizard from Oz

 

My ”time-theory” tested IRL

Wow, what a week!

And a prouf of the benefit of saving some energy for un-expected occurances, opportunities as well the need to handle disasters. Which is so strongly related to prioritization of your time.

You who follow me on Facebook could see that I wrote ”:-) ” I did not write why, but I was just very please with my life. My loved ones seams to enjoy life, I have come to a more ”rutine phase” with the company even if this about ending this years book is new to me, and some decisions must be taken this week-end with the sharp money-transaction-dead-end beeing Thursday 23.00. Not that we will die if we miss it, but it is this tax-trick of what-to-chose-to-take-out-as-salary-vs-as-profit. And on my ”real job” currently have the most exciting challanges ever. I even put on my running-suite, first time in a year! And the sun was shining

So, that was the reason behind those

Started to do the weekly paper work for the comany, but it is rather nice when not in stress. Then strolled out to the kitchen.

Water over half the floor Coming from the bathroom. The washing-machine had stoped, so no more extra water were coming, but: The floor in the kitchen is of wood. You can remove the water on the surface, but not under it

So: New prioritization!!!!

What to do? Started to remove the water, and simulataniously trying to remember which insurence company we have. Wanted to hurry, as I hoped to be able to save the floor, and hoped for some advise.

Keepting track on which insurence comany has not been prioritized, so: Quickest way to find out? Hum they did just send an offer, which I placed in this pile of paper. … Found it, went to the computor. My good, will not go into that. Should make a call. Phone out of battery. Charger not where it normaly is. Typically! Found it got the phone started. Took the alternative that they should call me back so that I could concentrate on removing the water. Remembered, hum, it is the house-community insurence to use. It was changed this summer. The community also just changed insurence comapny, but to what? Went to where the community keepts its papers, found the insurancecomapny and the number. Was asked to call sanity-company. Remembered that we used one some years ago, and that that number is actualy in the stair of the haous. Made tha call, and was informed that it was nothing more to do now anyway. The damage is done. Will talk to the insureance company on Monday to decide how to proceed. Phu!

Re-prioritization again: Breathing!

And one method for me to calm down is to write this, which also made such a good connection to my two reasent articles:

• Ones Tetris-life
  And a reflection to this week: If I had not handled those aspects properly before this week, I would not have been able to take tha advantage of the un-expected job opportunity that came up, and this water-insident would have stressed me way much more. And forced me to work like hell rest of the week-end. Now I can easily just re-prioritize
• Risktaker in time
  Still learning hear. But forcing myself to take some extra vactaion around Easter, and then not be too pushy at work = starting up a thousend things. And actually manage the same tactic privately payed off this week I guess this is part of the life-long-learning …

Hum, good now I am calm again, and fit to make the re-prioritization. Now in need to be more concrete and detailed towards myself, so the ”must for the weekend”:

1. Paying comany bills – at least check if there is any urgent ones and preferably take the time to pay the ones due during the coming week, so that I do not need to think about this activity till next weekend. Quick thing to check.
2. Making the 1-slider I promissed my manager. We are new to eachother so I definitly like to make a good impression, and, actually even more important. I truly like him to succeed in what he want to use it for. But still need some thinking-time back and forth, before actually getting started. But definitly definitly a must. But this is not just a do-thing. This is more of a ”To be done good thing which I chose on my own how much time to spend on”.
3. Paying the saleies – due date April 24, but a true must, and which is also rather quickly done. So, easy winn
4. Summarize the drivers admin and hand-over my summary to them. Just a 1-2 hour, not absolutely necessary, but I value to keep up the ruitines towards them, because I like them to keep high standard, and if I wait and find questionmarkes the risk increases with the time, that they will not remeber what happende, and therefore will not be able to answer.
5. And here comes the tax-salary balance question.
6. Reminds me that I need to find one more data in for my own tax-declaration. I did send a mail-request to get the answer. Do I have the time to wait a few days more and hope they have a proper answer by then. If I am correct, this is due beginning of May.
7. And here comes the fun things The things I so like to do. Related to priority 2 on the list, but plus an idea I have around the job-role I like to get. Currently I have no role. I have a job and some activities for a few weeks ahead. So it is not that I risk loosing my job. But this would be to increase the possibilities that I get the role that I want, but also that IF I get that role, the idea I have in mind would also support that success.
8. And I also truly looking forward to seeing Magnus as well. We have worked like hell for a long time now, with very little time together. And now we finaly have the opportunity This morning, I even saw the possibility that I should make some cooking, but that is now transfered to ”Not allowed”. Facebook and Blogging and mailing was there already. Apparently I had to re-prioritize a bit, but now that prioritization is back again
9. Hum, new washing-mashin, but that will not be due until next weekend. Lucky thing I did all the laundry yeasterday!

Tadam! Who now thinks I will have a stressed or a relaxed weekend? If I keep to this priority-list I look forward to a very relaxed and pleasant weekend, might even allow me to take a stroll into town as we are running out of offic-paper. And this business results in tons and tons of paper. But, that is an other story.

By the way, I will even skipp the spell-checking today. It is my blog, and I use it  as I like. But anyone is welcome to read